Our defense had 7 all conference players, and none of them were the cornerback that transfered to a P4 team, or the two guys who played ahead of him,.
Did our defense underperform our talent?

He isn’t saying that.. He is saying that the UC Davis site is wrong in callling him a red shirt junior. Meyer played ten or more games in each of his 3 seasons at Cal Poly. Then he played here. That is four solid post covid years, 21,22,23,24. He was at Cal Poly in 2020 also and Cal Poly called that his redshirt year, which makes no sense as it was a free year for everyone,

Rex isn’t graduating., at least in terms of eligibility.

New CB coach moved players around, Verner and McWilliams starting late season games, Bains consistently started at Nickel.
Cotton was a reserve last half of season but played quite a bit
Last years starter Alexander seldom played until end of season.

Talk about a meteoric rise, from Simon Fraser HC in 2019 to Idaho HC in 2025. A fairly limited resume for a head coach.

Ulisone Amone this year is listed as a Grad Student.

Two playing QBs is not rare, and can be successful. Examples: Neither Dunniway, nor O’Hara were just wildcat QBs, yet Sac in its best year used them often on the same drives. Neither Mellott nor Chambers were just wildcat QBs. Chambers was arguably the better of the two but playing both left them with an established QB when Chambers graduated. It obviously can be a problem with some personalities.

As you say, playing more players when winning is not critical is easier. If a team isn’t a contender and has a bunch of new players they need to play more of them to see and develop what they have. That might be Davis’ situation next year.

It is a matter of balance. Playing two QBs can work or it can blow up in your face. We saw it work a few years at Sac, Montana, Idaho State, and we saw it blow up at Sac causing a couple of their QBs to quit.

Davis a few years ago stood out for playing a lot of people and winning the fourth quarter This year they played fewer people even with probably more experienced team, and sometimes held on desperately for a win . Starters even made up much of the special teams. In the Idaho game Davis played less than 40 players.

That may be a reason schools aren’t required to offer a year of tuition and housing, so they can rent a player for a few months.

Bains will be a six year player only possible because of COVID.. Several more in that category but none with the year Bains had.
They squandered Toki’ and Nava’s redshirt years in 2021, they are from the same class as Bains, ‘20.

Wow, good for him.
Randy is from my hometown and my daughter attended the Catholic girls school that shared campuses with Cardinal Newman so I was always rooting for Randy. I thought he would be a good coach as he played under different systems at Davis
According to ucdavisaggies.com Randy redshirted in 2009

Case Cookus was a true freshman for Plough at NAU.

You guys know better than me but I thought Moroski was OC in 2010, and Randy redshirted in 2009.

Hopefully at this point the coaches have an open mind. Plough has started a true freshman while OC at NAU. Give everyone a shot at the job.

Davis isn’t going to lose many transfers, one reason being the small number of returning starters.
The last few years veteran transfers were numerous due to the number of 5,6,7 year players, those are diminishing
I imagine some of the players from the last few recruiting classes transferring because of dissatisfaction with opportunities to play. Davis has been playing veteran players and there are lots of lower classmen that haven’t had much play. I don’t think that has much to do with who the OC was when they signed on.
Plough’s saying that the more physical team always wins and the smarter team doesn’t lose was correct. In these playoff games the home team wins more than usual because of seedings and because if the limited preparation time for the visitor due to travel. Davis had to travel on Thursday due to location and the need to take finals, and they didn’t look as prepared as usual.

Idaho fans thought they were rounding third, heading for home,

Time for We are Marshall 2 the sequel.

I’m sure it will cause some confusion, but people are becoming accustomed to sports having different conference affiliations.. It isn’t all sports except football, it is all MW sports except football. Now sports are spread over more than 3 conferences with some not having a home.

Without football the move makes no sense. ( Not analyzing $ here, maybe monetarily it does.)
Increased travel, less local rivalries, leaving schools that students know like UCSD, UCSB, Poly, etc. in favor of playing Wyoming,UTEP, Grand Canyon, trading Southern California audience for New Mexico and Nevada.

Here is Mateo Perez’s career. 2021 was clearly a redshirt year.
2023 was a year mostly lost to injury, I’ve seen the NCAA grant another year in that case. So Perex may have two years more eligibility.
Season GP ATT YDS TD Long AVG/A AVG/G
2021 3 1 2 0 2 2.0 0.7
2022 9 34 175 1 16 5.1 19.4
2023 4 23 98 1 37 4.3 24.5
2024 13 58 240 0 21 4.1 18.5
Total 29 116 515 2 37 4

It was getting pretty complicated for a bit so they waved their hands in frustration and gave up.
What bugs me is listing 5 games for players like Souriolle and Fisher when I’m pretty sure they didn’t appear in five games. (They fixed this for Fisher in the stats but not in the roster bio.)

Once a team announces they are then ruled by the “legislation” of their new division. A transitioning team, like Delaware was this year, can have the higher scholarship limits, etc. so from that point they are necessarily ineligible to play in FCS playoffs, for ever unless they transition again in the other direction as Idaho did.. Last time to announce is in late Spring prior to a season where they begin playing in the new higher division. The FBS restriction on post season play is mostly irrelevant because transitioning teams are unlikely to be invited to an attractive bowl.